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Spotlight Democracy Networks Participants Database Publications & Research Funding Sources

-Democracy Networks-

• Centers for Pluralism
• Central Asia NGO Network
• Democratic Youth Network
• Education for Democracy Foundation
• European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations Initiative (ENEMO Initiative)
• Euroregional Center for Democracy
• The Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI)
• GROZD, Civil Organization for Democracy
• Internews
• Moscow Helsinki Group
• Network of Independent Journalists
• NGONET
• No Torture/Committee Against Torture
• Nonviolence International - NIS
• OECD SIGMA Programme
• Partners for Democratic Change
• Russian and East European Network Information Center
• South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO)
• Stability Pact
• Stability Pact Gender Task Force

Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe
1718 M Street, NW, No.147
Washington, DC 20036, USA
Tel: 202-466-7105
Fax: 202-466-7140
idee@idee.org
www.idee.org
www.idee.org/centers.html
Focus: The Centers for Pluralism focus on civic education, civil society strengthening, independent media and free elections.

Counterpart International, Inc.
1200 18th Street NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20036, USA
Tel: 202-296-9676
Fax: 202-296-9676
Email: communications@counterpart.org
www.cango.net.kg
Focus: The Central Asia NGO Network, maintained by Partners International Inc., provides information about the NGO community in Central Asia to people throughout the world and Central Asian NGOs to foster partnership and cooperation among organizations and individuals.

1717 K St, NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036, USA
Tel: 202-857-0909
Fax: 202-857-0027
www.democraticyouth.net
Focus: Democratic Youth Network aims to promote cross-border dialogue among young political and civic leaders in Central/Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

ul. Nowolipie 9/11
00-150 Warsaw, Poland
Tel: 48-22-827-7636
Fax: 48-22-635-40-06
edudemo@edudemo.org.pl
www.edudemo.org.pl
Focus: The Education for Democracy Foundation promotes the dissemination of knowledge concerning democracy and a free market economy as well as provide skills for civic activity in a democratic state.

Veronika Paunoviae
ENEMO Liason Officer
CeSID, Serbia
Tel: 381-11-3235-436
Fax: 381-11-3342-771
cesid@cesid.org.yu
www.gong.hr/Enemo
Focus: The Network focuses on effective international election monitoring through the standardization of monitoring methods and reporting, exchange programs, information exchange, citizen participation and empowerment, and the support of election monitoring initiatives.

Str. Semenic nr.10
Timisoara 1900, Romania
Tel.:+40 256 221 471; +40 256 221 472
Fax: +40 256 436 633
Email: office@regionalnet.org
www.regionalnet.org
Focus: The Euroregional Center for Democracy aims to promote open society values by building and consolidating democracy, promoting partnerships, strengthening the institutional capacity of the NGO community, and raising regional community awareness.

Bishkek Head office
264 Manaschy Sagynbaya #27
Tel: (+996 312) 64-46-58, 64-44-63
Fax: (+996 312) 64-44-63
fti@infotel.kg
http://www.fti.org.kg/eng/welcome.php
Focus: The Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI) works for peace and conflict prevention and resolution primarily at the cross-border communities of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the Ferghana valley.

Građansko oganizovanje za demokratiju
Višegradska 26
Sarajevo
Bosna i Hercegovina, 71000
Tel: 387 33 458 665
Fax: 387 33 458 665
Email: info@grozd.ba
http://www.grozd.ba/
Focus: GROZD is a network of NGOs in Bosnia and Herzegovina devoted to civil society strengthening. Essentially, its purpose is to facilitate cooperation between government leaders (national and local) and NGOs.

P.O. Box 4448
Arcata, CA 95518-4448, USA
Tel: 707-826-2030
Fax: 707-826-2136
info@internews.org
www.internews.org
Focus: Internews supports open media worldwide, fostering independent media in emerging democracies with innovative television and radio programming and Internet content.

Bolshoy Golovin per., no. 22, St. 1, App. 5
107045 Moscow, Russia
Tel: 7-495-207-6069
Fax: 7-95-577-6904
mhg-main@online.ptt.ru
www.mhg.ru
Focus: The Moscow Helsinki Group works to assist human rights observation and democracy development in Russia.

Stojan Obradovic, Editor-in-Chief
STINA Press Agency
Setaliste Batavice 11/1
58000 Split, Croatia
Tel: 385-21-49-956
Fax: 385-21-357-040
stina@st.tel.hr
US Contact: Eric Chenoweth, Co-Director, IDEE
1718 M Street, NW, No.147
Washington, DC 20036
idee@idee.org
www.idee.org/nij.html
Focus: The Network of Independent Journalists was founded by the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe in 1993 and is coordinated by the independent press agency STINA since 1994. The network supports independent media by fostering greater cross-border reporting by independent newspapers and publications.

Freedom House
Washington, DC Office
1319 18th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036, USA
Tel: 202-296-5101
Fax: 202-296-5078
www.ngonet.org/
Focus: NGONet, maintained by Freedom House, offers information to, for and about NGOs active in Central and Eastern Europe.

Nizhegorod Regional Public Organization
Ul. Kozhevennaia, d. 11, office 303
603001 Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia
Tel: 7 (8312) 33-14-04
Fax: 7 (8312) 34-34-81
Email: komitet@putkam.net
http://www.pytkam.net/web/
Focus: No Torture focuses on the formation of public opinion about the problem of the use of torture and the population’s heightened interest in defending their own rights.

Samarkhandsky Blvd. 15 corp 5 apt 30
109507 Moscow, Russia
Tel: 7-291-11-42
Fax: 7-291-23-58
ninis@online.ru
www.policy.hu/kamenshikov/ninis/
Focus: Nonviolence International works to strengthen peace assistance, prevent regional and ethnic conflicts, and assist in conflict management and humanitarian activities.

2, rue André-Pascal
75775 Paris Cedex 16, France
Fax: 33-1-4524-1300
sigma.contact@oecd.org
http://www.sigmaweb.org/
Focus: The Sigma Programme provides support to partner countries in their efforts to modernize public governance systems. This support includes: assessing reform progress and identifying priorities; assisting in the process of institution-building and setting up legal frameworks; and facilitating assistance from the EU and other donors by helping to deign projects and implement action plans. Sigma is currently working with ten new EU member states and five EU candidate countries, assisting decision-makers and administrations in their preparations for entry into the EU against baselines set by good European practice and existing EU legislation.

2121 K Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20037
Tel: 202-942-2166
Fax: 202-785-5886
partners@partnersglobal.org
www.partnersglobal.org
Focus: Partners for Democratic Change is an international organization committed to building sustainable local capacity to advance civil society and a culture of change and conflict management.

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
Geography 106 A1600
Austin, TX 78712, USA
Tel: 512-471-7782
Fax: 512-471-3368
creees-info@reenic.utexas.edu
http://reenic.utexas.edu/reenic/
Focus: The Russian and East European Network Information Center offers extensive information on organizations, activities, and research.

SEEMO-IPI Spiegelgasse 2/29
A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Tel: 43-1-513-3940
Fax: 43-1-512-9015
info@seemo.org
www.seemo.org/
Focus: SEEMO created the SEEMO Emergency Fund to support journalists and small media projects in South East Europe. It is an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI) and is a regional, non-governmental, non-profit network of editors, media executives, and leading journalists from newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV stations, news agencies, and new media in South East Europe. SEEMO aims to create a bridge between international media activities and the media developments in the region.

Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe
rue Wiertz 50
B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: 32-2-401-8700
Fax: 32-2-401-8712
scsp@stabilitypact.org
www.stabilitypact.org
Focus: The Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe was adopted in 1999 at the EU's initiative to strengthen the countries of South Eastern Europe and foster peace, democracy, respect for human rights and economic prosperity to achieve regional stability.

Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe
Rue Wiertz, 50
B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 (2) 401 87 00
Fax: +32 (2) 401 87 12
Email: scsp@stabilitypact.org
http://www.stabilitypact.org/gender/default.asp
Focus: The Gender Task Force focuses on increasing public awareness of women's political participation in elections and political processes in general; reforming existing electoral systems and legislation where needed to promote women’s political participation; and establishing governmental institutions to promote gender equality and improving and strengthening existing mechanisms.